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declined taking the evidence of the donkey" This fixes the use of the word ten years earlier than 1851. JOHN PICKFORD,^M.A. Xi'wboiirne Rectory, Woodbridge.

li MULATTO " (10 S. vii. 68). If k this word is not a corrupt metathesis of muiudllad, or a mot savant from mulatus, can it be that the termination is the Baskish diminutive to, tto, cho, tcho, added to tnula ? The Basks have been so fond of taking Romance words into their vocabulary, and have had so much influence in the Spanish colonies, that such an origin does not seem impossible, though their own word for mule is mando. A half-caste may be said to be " adopted " into one of two races. E. S. DODGSON. Oxford.

ROYAL KEPIER SCHOOL, HOUGHTON-LE- SPRING (10 S. vii. 68). In a list of eminent scholars who were educated at Kepier School, given in Nicholas Carlisle's ' Gram- mar Schools in England and Wales,' are the names of Christopher Hunter, the distin- guished physician, concerning whom see Surtees's ' Durham ' and Nichols's ' Literary Anecdotes ' ; and William Romaine, the eminent divine and writer (see Rose's ' Biog. Diet.').

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

"WROTH" (10 S. vii. 67). The note showing that Shakespeare and others used wroth as a substantive, and that wrath has been used as an adjective, is useful and much to the point. But it is, as usual, a question of chronology and dialect. Before 1500, I can find no such examples in the Midland dialect. On the contrary, the A.-S. wrath, adj., became, regularly, the M.E. wrooth or wroth, as used by Chaucer at least twenty times (I give the references in my Glossary). But the A.-S. wrceththe, sb., with long 03, became the M.E. wraththe, wratthe, wrathe, as in Chaucer, at least seven times ; and was accompanied by the verb ivratthen or wratben, to be angry, used by Chaucer at least five times. But, as time went on, confusion set in ; and that is why Shake- speare and Butler use the sb. in a form which, in Chaucer's time and dialect, would have been inadmissible. It is perhaps worth mention that in Barbour the adj. is wrath, and the sb. is wreth ; as also in Hampole's Psalter, which is likewise in the Northern dialect. WALTER W. SKEAT.

ADMIRAL BENBOW'S DEATH (10 S. vii. 7, 55). The recent disastrous earthquake in Jamaica reminds me that it may not be

out of place to record under this heading the inscription to the memory of Admiral Benbow which was placed over his grave in the church of St. Andrew, Kingston,. Jamaica. I copied it recently as follows- from The Leisure Hour of 17 Jan., 1863 : Here lyeth Interred the body of lohn Benbow Ksq r Admiral of the White a true pattern of English Courage who lost hys life in defence of hys Queene and Country November ye 4 th 1702 in the 52 nd year of hys age by a wound in hys leg received in an engagement with Mons. Du Casse, being much lamented.

Besides the above inscription the slab con- tains the crest and coat of arms of Admiral Benbow ; but of these I have no record.

JOHN T. PAGE. Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

VINING FAMILY (10 S. vii. 28). William and Henry Vining were brothers of Frederick and James Vining. Fanny Vining married Charles Gill (manager of the Lynn, Ipswich,, and other theatres), who was very much her senior. On one occasion she acted at Windsor Castle under her married name.. She went to America in the fifties, and continued there. Gill died in this country in 1869. WM. DOUGLAS.

125, Helix Road, Brixton Hill.

r BISHOP ISLAND, SOUTH PACIFIC (10 S. vii. 69). There is no island so named in the Macquarie group. The rocks south of Macquarie Island (discovered 1811) are the Bishop and Clerk and the Judge and Clerk. If MR. MICHELL will consult the older charts of the Central Pacific, he will find in the Kingsmill group an island named after Capt. Charles Bishop, of the brig Nautilus,, who discovered this chain in 1799. The island subsequently received the names of Blaney and Sydenham ; its native name is Nanouti. There is also a Bishop's Rock in the Bonin group, N.W. Pacific, discovered by Capt. Bishop in 1796.

E. A. PETHERICK. Streatham.

WYBERTON, LINCS (10 S. vii. 69). Them is a valuable description of this church, with illustrations of the exterior and of the " handsome octagonal font," in * An Account of the Churches in the Division of Holland in the County of Lincoln,' with sixty-nine illustrations, Boston, 1843. The name was also spelt Wibertune ; see Lines N. & Q., vol. vii. (Jan., 1902-Oct., 1903), p. 106. Wyberton church bells are somewhat famous